Is the gfx card type important or just the memory?

corblimey

I've not owned a "high end PC" for a while - the onboard graphics on my current hp does just fine for browsing and watching TV - but there's a game out that I've got half an eye on. I don't want to go down the road of buying a new PC just to play this game, so I dug out one of my old towers.

According to the specs, it comes with 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT, but the specs for the game state:

Graphics: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, 512 MB or ATI Radeon HD 5670, 512 MB (Does not support Intel Integrated Graphics Cards)

So since both my gfx card and the spec say 512MB, should everything work fine, or is there other essential differences between my GeForce and the listed GeForce that would render it incompatible? Opening the old PC, it looks like I could replace the gfx card if necessary, but this PC is at least 5 years old at this point, so I don't know if that would work.

Some advice?

ED E

Model	GeForce 8500 GT	GeForce GTX 260
Manufacturer	nVidia	nVidia
Year	April 2007	June 16, 2008
Code Name	G86	G200
Fab Process	80 nm	65 nm
Bus	PCIe x16, PCI, PCIe x16 2.0	PCIe x16 2.0
Memory	512 MB	896 MB
Core Speed	450 MHz	576 MHz
Shader Speed	900 MHz	1242 MHz
Memory Speed	400 MHz (800 MHz effective)	999 MHz (1998 MHz effective)
Unified Shaders	16	192
Texture Mapping Units	8	64
Render Output Units	4	28
Bus Type	DDR2	GDDR3
Bus Width	128-bit	448-bit
DirectX Version	DirectX 10	DirectX 10
OpenGL Version	OpenGL 3.0	OpenGL 3.1
Power (Max TDP)	45 watts	182 watts
Shader Model	4.0	4.0
Bandwidth	12800 MB/sec	111888 MB/sec
Texel Rate	3600 Mtexels/sec	36864 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate	1800 Mpixels/sec	16128 Mpixels/sec

Its a lot slower than the min spec. Get a cheap 6770 or similar and plonk that in as an affordable upgrade.

TerrorFirmer

Your processor is also very old so anything that requires a GTX260 to run will quite possibly run pretty crap even with a new card.

What is the game?